civilisationReview

"They call her Santa Muerte (‘Holy Death’ or ‘Saint Death’), but she’s no saint. Literally. The skeletal female figure has a growing devotion in Mexico, Central America, and some places in the United States, but don’t be fooled by the Mary-like veil or the holy-sounding name. She’s not a recognized saint by the Roman Catholic Church. In fact, in 2013, a Vatican official condemned devotion to her, equating it to “the celebration of devastation and of hell.” “It’s not every day that a folk saint is actually condemned at the highest levels of the Vatican,” Andrew Chesnut, a Santa Muerte expert who has been studying the devotion for more than eight years, told CNA. Chesnut is the Bishop Walter F. Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of "Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint," the only English academic book to date on the subject. Despite her condemnation from on high, Santa Muerte remains increasingly popular among cr...

I 'm a Catholic.  (Not a 'Roman' Catholic though, as i do not recognise white and western hegemony over the idea of 'God'.)  So what do i think of this observance by Catholics, or at least a good number of them (i hope)? Well yes.  It is important, especially when interned within capitalist, hedonistic, consumeristic socioeconomic conditions that constantly focuses one on self-interest at the expense of another.  So it is important that one partakes in this weekly 'spiritual spa-like detoxification and exfoliation'.  It's not that fish does wonders for the soul.  But abstinence, within a satanic secular climate where indulgence and reaction is promoted, through the consumption of fish, might help the scales fall from one's eyes. But, of course, it doesn't work if you're going to douse your fishy with a 1000 and half Island archipelago of a dressing, complemented by a nice bottle of wine from Tescos, and a box and a half of After-8s.  There ha...

The degeneration of the church as witnessed in the ongoing sexual abuse discoveries within the Catholic church is in significant part, a consequence of the overarching sexual revolution in the west;  the growth of eurofeminism's assertion that women aren't free till they're free to be as debauched as the worse amongst men;  the Consumerist Revolution in the west finally leading to Sexual Consumerism and the LGBTQ movement; and the juvenilisation of the market with the young serving as the main force determining media and cultural development, and it serving to enhance the tendency toward immediate gratification and via shallow and debased means. These phenomena shows an all round acceptance, celebration, and promotion of sexual promiscuity and depravity in western society. In fact, the LGBTQ movement actually expects the Church to serve as a contraceptive to protect them from feelings of moral conflict. However, it has reached a point that they demand it, not due to moral...